Community and youth leaders from Nakuru County have urged the National Cohesion and Integration Commission to monitor hate speakers and pacify communities ahead of the 2017 elections.
Rashid Mohammed of Nakuru for Peace Caucus and Ronald Bwire, a youth leader in Nakuru West sub-county argued that cases of hate speech and incitement to violence were on a steady rise, a situation they said could easily plunge the country into anarchy.
"Unless the NCIC acts fast to contain leaders preaching hatred, then the country is openly staring at anarchy," Mohamned said on Friday.
Bwire on his part urged the commission to preach peace among all communities in the country especially now that elections are around the corner.
He added that regions such as Nakuru need greater caucus by the commission going by its cosmopolitan nature and history of ethnic violence.
“Hatred is slowly creeping in among our people and should it not be attended to, then the future is bleak," he stated.
He said Nakuru bore the greatest brunt of the violence and much as people have reconciled, a sense of bitterness was still evident and so the NCIC ought to unite communities living in their county.
The recent weeks have seen political leaders being accused of propagating hate talk with the latest entrants being Kiambu Governor William Kabogo and ODM Nairobi branch chairman George Aladwa who has since been arraigned in court to answer to charges of incitement.